Website redesign
20. Januar 2011
Being online for a while now and getting more visitors in the last months, I found, that my website needed a redesign. I took the nice zenlike-style by [[http://nodethirtythree.com/|nodethirtythree design]] and wrapped up a dokuwiki-template around it. I really like it! It’s clear, strong, easy to read and somewhat sophisticated. After creating the template, I
Finding the right foreground color for a random background color
7. Januar 2011
This is basically a reminder for myself, but perhaps other people might find that interesting as well: I’m currently working on the creation of a legend, that shows colors with a short token on them. These colors are user defined, so I don’t know at configuration time, what they are and I don’t want the
Think big – a development methodology
15. Dezember 2010
In case you read my recent tweet and don’t know what I’m talking about: Let me break it down for you. In my years of experience in the development field of work being a systems administrator/developer hybrid the one thing I learned the hardest was: Think big! This means, that you’ll have to not only
A bulletin board using dokuwiki
14. Dezember 2010
No, wait. There’s nothing finished here. The idea has just been on my mind for years, so I thought, I probably just write it down for me or others to develop at some point. The basic question is: Can I use dokuwiki as a bulletin board/forum system? If I’m using dokuwiki for –well, virtually anything,
libapr2 on Sles11 64bit
24. November 2010
I’m currently having a hard time getting libapr2 with the Perl Module Apache2::Request and the Apache2 Module to run properly on a SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) 11 with a 64 bit kernel. I’m getting undefined symbols and missing libraries etc. I need that module for a network documentation tool called [[https://netdot.uoregon.edu/trac/|Netdot]] I found out
Say hello to Lbows!
7. April 2010
Being confronted with the same requirement for the millionth time to create a webservice, that does something, but simple and supporting SOAP, XMLRPC, blablabla, I sat down and thought about that whole thing. And created [[http://wiki.github.com/dploeger/lbows/|Lbows]]. Lbows is a very simple //PHP5//-based middleware platform utilizing the wonderful [[http://framework.zend.com|Zend Framework]] to generate SOAP, XMLRPC, JSONRPC and